Burlingame Municipal Code Ch. 9.16 Animals as Novelties

It is unlawful for any person to display, sell, offer for sale or barter any live rabbit, baby chick, duckling or other fowl, fish, turtle, snake, lizard, chameleon or other reptile, bird, cat, dog, guinea pig, rodent or other animal, as novelties, whether or not dyed, colored or otherwise artificially treated.

(1941 Code § 1335.1, Ord. 649, (1957))

This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit the display in proper facilities or the sale of any animal, fish, reptile or bird by any person carrying on any business in which animals, fish, reptiles or birds are the stock in trade when such person is possessed of a valid business license under the provisions of Title 6 of the Burlingame Ordinance Code, as such provisions now exist or as they may be hereafter amended.

(1941 Code § 1335.1, Ord. 649, (1957))

It is unlawful for any person required to procure a business license under the provisions of Title 6 of the Burlingame Ordinance Code, as such provisions now exist or as they may be hereafter amended, to give away any animal, fish, reptile or bird unless such person is possessed of a valid business license to carry on the business of a pet shop, kennel, aviary or fish hatchery.

(1941 Code § 1335.1, Ord. 649, (1957))